Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Reusing routing logic through template routes

One of the key advantages of using Java for defining routes is the ability to define the same, or similar, routing logic multiple times in your integrations, while changing key elements.

Consider the case of a route that:

• Consumes bulk order data from CSV files in an input directory
• Splits it into individual orders
• Extracts the date of each order, formatted specific to the country, and converts it to a universal one
• Places an order confirmation into another directory

Now consider that you may have orders from dozens of different countries, with different order and confirmation directories, and different date formats.

You could write similar routes dozens of times, but that is going to create a maintenance ...